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The date and authors of Shiva Purana are unknown. No authentic data is available. Scholars such as Klostermaier as well as Hazra estimate that the oldest chapters in the surviving manuscript were likely composed around the 10- to 11th-centuries CE, which has not stood the test of carbon dating technology hence on that part we must rely on the text itself which tells when it was composed.
The text is named after Jnana (knowledge) aspect of the Hindu god Shiva, as Dakshinamurti which means giver of knowledge. [2] He is traditionally the expounder of the Shastras, represented as seating under a Banyan tree in the Himalayas resplendent with energy and bliss, surrounded and revered by sages, in a yoga pose (virasana), holding the fire of knowledge in one hand and a book or snake or ...
This story, state Bonnefoy and Doniger, appears in Vayu Purana's chapter 1.55, Brahmanda Purana's chapter 1.26, Shiva Purana's Rudra Samhita's Sristi Khanda's chapter 15, Skanda Purana's chapters 1.3, 1.16, 3.1, and other Puranas. [89] The texts are in Sanskrit as well as regional languages, [4] [5] and almost entirely in narrative metric ...
Ugrashravas Sauti (Sanskrit: उग्रश्रवस् सौती, also Ugraśravas, Sauti, Sūta, Śri Sūta, Suta Gosvāmī) is a character in Hindu literature, featured as the narrator of the Mahābhārata [1] and several Puranas including the Shiva Purana, [2] Bhagavata Purana, [3] [4] Harivamsa, [5] Brahmavaivarta Purana, and Padma Purana, [6] with the narrations typically taking ...
Dakshinamurti (Sanskrit: दक्षिणामूर्ति, romanized: Dakṣiṇāmūrti) [1] is an aspect of the Hindu god Shiva as a guru (teacher). He is ...
Devi Adi Parashakti is a mythological television series based on the Hindu texts of the Shiva Purana, the Devi-Bhagavata Purana, the Markandeya Purana, and pan-Indian folktales of the Goddess. The series was created by Siddharth Kumar Tewary , directed by Loknath Pandey and Manish Singh, and produced by Swastik Productions .
Shiva as Brahman: Control over the senses, unity with Brahman 2: Ardhanarishvara, combined form of Shiva and his consort Parvati - 3: 3 sacred fires: pleasing the fire-god Agni: 4: the four-headed Brahma - 5: Pancha-Brahman (five aspects of Shiva) Cleansing of the sin of human murder 6: the six-headed Kartikeya and Ganesha, sons of Shiva ...
The title of the text is also transliterated as Shiva-digvijay and Shiv-digvijay because of schwa deletion. The text is an anonymous work, [ 1 ] but L. K. Dandekar and P. R. Nandurbarkar - who edited it in 1895 - attributed its authorship to Khando Ballal (1718), the son of Shivaji's secretary Balaji Avji. [ 2 ]